Industrial and Agricultural History of the Parker River Watershed

Mills along the Parker River and its tributaries

• Introduction: The village mill

• Cart Creek Saw Mill (1708)

• Jackman Brook Saw Mill

• Little River Tide Mills

  • Emery-Scullard Grist Mill (1646)

  • Short-Pearson Grist Mill (1696)

  • Pearson Grist Mill (1831)

• Mill River

  • Nelson Grist Mill (1644)

  • Pearson Fulling Mill (1643)

  • Pearson Grist Mill (1700)

  • Dodge Grist Mill (1780)

  • Stickney Mills (1740)

• Parker River

  • Dummer-Spencer Mill (1636)

  • Byfield Woolen Factory (1794)

  • Nail making at the Byfield Woolen Factory (1794-96)

  • Wheeler-Tenney Snuff Mill also known as the Larkin-Morrill Mill (1735)

  • Pearson Snuff Mill (1830)

  • Byfield Snuff Co. Mill No. 3 (1860)

  • Georgetown Mills

• Pine Island Creek Grist Mill (1757)

• Rowley River Tide Mill (1760)

Quarries and Mines

• Devil's Den (limestone quarry)

Agriculture

• Fatherland Farm